1.2.5 Pre-release available

1.2.5 Pre-release is now available. You can download it here.

Changes included in Minecraft 1.2.5 pre-release patch include:
• Added shift clicking support in furnaces
• Added method to easily acquire blocks you have selected in the world in Creative mode using the ‘pick block’ key
• Made the Direct Connect dialog remember the last IP for the current session
• Fixed issues detected certain links in chat
• Fixed wild ocelots behaving like tamed cats
• Fixed various chat crashes
• Made cats less eager to sit on things
• Made cats less patient
• Fixed world generation failing under certain circumstances
• Fixed issues turning off sound under certain circumstances
• Removed all ghost entities under the command of Lord Herobrine
• Fixed crash when pasting certain characters in chat
• Fixed slash ‘/’ key not behaving correctly in certain environments
• Fixed command matching being too greedy (for example: typing ‘/stophammertime’ no longer stops your server)
• Fixed not being able to click coloured links
• Fixed potential issue with village door detection (which could cause too many villagers)
• Made using a stack of bowls on Mooshrooms not consume the whole stack of bowls
• Made punching a TNT block with flint and steel in hand destroy and drop a TNT block (right-clicking will activate the TNT)

Minecraft - The Tv series? 25 Million downloads

'For just a small company of around 25 employees, Mojang isn't doing too bad. Financial reports say Minecraft has pulled in $80 million in revenue - or around £50.16m - since its October 2010 launch.'

With the game rapidly approaching (And probably exceeding) 25 million downloads, Minecraft is now one of the most popular online games. Along with this Hollywood seems to have noticed...

"We've been approached by a number of high-profile Hollywood producers and asked to do TV shows," said Carl Manneh, Mojang's chief executive.

Minecraft Xbox release set for 9th May

The release date for the Xbox version of Minecraft has finally been revealed as May 9th.
Imagine it, build it! Minecraft for Xbox 360 lets you create worlds from the comfort of your sofa. Play alone or play with your friends. Explore, build and conquer! At night monsters come out, so make sure to build a shelter before that happens. After that, your world is your imagination. Turn your hours into minutes with Minecraft for Xbox 360!

• The infinite possibilities in Minecraft just got bigger. The gaming phenomenon is coming to the console for the first time exclusively to Xbox 360.
• The new crafting interface in Minecraft for Xbox 360 delivers a completely new way to build Minecraft worlds where your imagination is the only limit.
• Full featured Tutorial mode to teach the basics and help master essential skills faster.
• Social Multiplayer – up to 4 player split screen on one console, share the experience for the first time from the comfort of your couch.
• Play Minecraft for Xbox 360 with Friends over Xbox LIVE, combine split screen and Xbox LIVE play in any combination up to 8 players.

Minecraft 1.2.4 released

The new Minecraft update has been released. The 1.2.4 update fixes many bugs along with introducing new decoration blocks and allowing for three new colors of Wooden Planks along with other changes.

Full list below;

Minecraft 1.2.4 New Features and Updates
•Chat history and much better chat editing
•A few new decoration blocks
•“Back” and “Quit” buttons to OutOfMemoryScreen
•Made cats more realistic (read: probably annoying).
•Added a “minimal” debug menu for testing with. Shift+F3 to hide the graphs

Minecraft 1.2.4 Bug Fixes
•Made placing half blocks on existing half blocks (to make a full block) easier
•Limit framerate on menu screens, no longer uses 100% cpu and make my computer melt
•Fixed fatal crash for converted worlds to anvil, when there’s blocks at max height
•Fixed an old bug with signs clearing text while you’re editing them in SMP
•Fixed crash when logging in while there are blocks at maxheight at spawn
•Fixed TNT ghosts in multiplayer
•Fixed storage minecarts dropping enchanted items
•Fixed crashes on invalid server addresses when joining a server
•Fixed entities being uninteractable if they existed at login (Multiplayer)
•Fixed dupe exploit with paintings
•Fixed furnaces and dispensers dropping enchanted items
•Fixed the “flickering” of chat as it vanishes off the screen
•Fixed text rendering over items in the container screens
•Fixed exploit with jungle saplings (turns other saplings into jungle ones)
•Fixed launcher opening minecraft dir if the path contains a space
•Fixed an off-by-one lighting bug * Fixed block transmuting (turning one block into another via pistons)
•Fixed placing mushrooms in daylight, where they can’t survive
•Fixed redstone lamps dropping powered block items when destroyed while on
•“save-all” (server) now works even when you have toggled “save-off”
•Fixed turning half-blocks into full-blocks while you’re standing on them
•Fixed seed displaying in F3 debug when the seed is unknown (multiplayer)
•Fixed villager texture changing clientside per profession
•Fixed falling off ledge corners while holding shift
•Fixed players falling when reconnecting to servers where they were previously flying

Profile - Silverfish

Silverfish are small, bug-like mobs which have silver skin and black eyes that are normally found in Strongholds. They can hide inside cobblestone, regular stone, and stone bricks. Although they only have eight health points (Four hearts) and an attack strength of one (Half a heart) they can be very deadly if they appear in a swarm.

Profile - Slime

Slimes are one of the most difficult mobs to find as they currently have no mob spawner set in the game and only spawn at levels close to Bedrock. Slimes are found only in the lowest forty layers of the map, and only in certain areas.

Slimes spawn in three sizes;
Tiny – 0.6 block cube
Small – 1.2 block cube
Big – 2.5 block cube

Fun fact – Tiny Slimes cannot harm the player as their attack strength is zero.

Profile - Ghast

Ghast`s are a mob found exclusively in the Nether. Their bodies are four by four by four block cubes with nine tentacle-like limbs hanging from the bottom. They shoot fire balls and open their eyes and mouth when attacking. Their scream is high pitched and child like. Ghast`s drop Gun powder and occasionally Ghast tears.

Minecraft Xbox, release date, revealed tommorow!

Well, the title pretty much covers the latest bit of Minecraft news. The Xbox version of the game is set for launch sometime this year yet the release date has not been finalised until now, what the date is has not been revealed yet, but the official date is set to be confirmed tomorrow.

Playxbla is announced to be the first to reveal the date.

Map - Skyblock

Today is something different, a recommendation for anyone who wishes to play Minecraft. One of the simplest yet most enjoyable and frustrating map i have played is known as Skyblock.
The basic premise of Skyblock is that The Player spawns on a right angle shaped block in the sky with limited resources and a tree. The Player then has to complete a bunch of tasks including;

- Building and lighting a Nether Portal
- Crafting a Bed
- Making a Mob Spawner

There are also many other challenges. Map is available for download Here. Enjoy :)

Profile - The Player

The Player is the character you control. The default player is known as "Steve?" (Notch puts the question mark because the name "Steve" is still not confirmed to be his real name) The Player`s skin is completely customisable. The Player is shown to be right-handed and only holds blocks with his right hand. In Minecraft, Zombie`s have a similar skin but it is ripped.

Minecraft goes 'split screen' (Xbox)

The Xbox Minecraft release will now benefit from the ability to have a split screen viewing.

"Microsoft has revealed that the Xbox Live version of Minecraft will boast a four-player split screen mode, allowing groups of avid crafters to work together. There will also be an eight-player online multiplayer mode – and this can be combined with split screen, allowing roomfuls of four people to work co-operatively. "

You can check out the trailer made by Mojang employees and Notch below;

Currently there is no set release date however Microsoft has hinted at a spring 2012 release.

Profile - 'Normal Spider'

The 'Normal Spider' is a Minecraft mob. Unlike Zombies or Skeletons they do not burn in sunlight, instead they turn passive and only attack players if attacked first. They have the ability to jump and climb along with the rare possibility to become Spider Jockeys. They can drop String and Spider Eyes.

Profile - Cave Spider

The Cave Spider is a species of Spider found in Minecraft that are deadlier than the normal Spider variants. The Cave Spider is spottable by its blue look and its smaller size. Compared to a 'Normal Spider' they are rarer and they`re venom is toxic. Cave Spiders are also faster than normal spiders, so either fight or sprint away.

Profile - Spider Jockey

A Spider Jockey is a rare occasion where a Skeleton rides a Spider. A Spider has a 1% chance to spawn with a Skeleton rider, but the rare Spider Jockey is one of the most dangerous enemies The Player can encounter possessing the abilities of both the Spider and the Skeleton rider.

Profile - Skeleton

Skeletons are an aggressive Minecraft mob that fire arrows when in range of 8 blocks. They are generally easy to kill with the only difficulty being caused by their arrow shooting. Skeletons have the ability to ride Spiders becoming Spider Jockeys.

Profile - Creeper

Possibly one of the most menacing creatures in Minecraft, the Creeper is a walking hissing TNT monster whose sole purpose in its life is to run up to players and explode killing themselves and the player. Creator of Minecraft, Notch, revealed their texture is meant to feel "crunchy, like dry leaves"

Profile - Elin "Ez" Zetterstrand

Elin Persson/Elin Zetterstrand, known as "Ez" to the members of the Minecraft community, is the wife of the creator of Minecraft, Markus "Notch" Persson.She was born on November 9th and is a fan and player of Minecraft under the username "Ez".

Profile - Markus "Notch" Persson

Markus Alexej Persson, more commonly known as "Notch" to the members of the Minecraft community, is the Swedish founder of Mojang and creator of Minecraft. He was born on June 1, 1979 and is currently married to Elin "Ez" Zetterstrand.

'One Giant Leap' for future Notch project

Notch, creator of the popular Minecraft game has revealed his plans for a future game.

"I think I'm going to make a space game, where you're a guy on a spaceship and you have adventures in space."

Notch also mentioned that he was working on three other projects, though no timeline of release was given.



“I’m kinda halfway through one, started somewhat the engine on one and prototyping a third, so I hope to pick a project by this summer”

He also revealed he would rather continue Minecraft than delivering a sequel to the popular game. "I think we’re gonna stick to the same Minecraft and keep adding to it, I’m not really a huge fan of making sequels. I think games can be made in a different way, but it can keep living for a long time.”

Profile - Ross "Djh3max" Hornby

Ross Hornby , known as Djh3max in the Minecraft series, is a member of Haatfilms along with Chris "Trottimus" Trott and Alex "Alsmiffy" Smith. His Minecraft skin is of a bearded man wearing a suit.

Fun fact; Despite Ross`s Minecraft skin having a beard, he does not have a beard in real life

Profile - Alex "Alsmiffy" Smith

Alex Smith , known as Alsmiffy in the Minecraft series, is a member of Haatfilms along with Chris "Trottimus" Trott and Ross "Djh3max" Hornby. His Minecraft skin is of a green man wearing a suit. There is speculation of whether Alsmiffy is a Creeper or a goblin however he shares most similarities with an arsonist – including his use of TNT.

Profile - Chris "Trottimus" Trott

Chris Trott, known as Trottimus in the Minecraft series, is a member of Haatfilms along with Alex "Alsmiffy" Smith and Ross "Djh3max" Hornby. His Minecraft skin is of a Walrus wearing a suit

Profile - Zombies

The most common aggressive mob in Minecraft is Zombies. Zombies burn in sunlight yet during the night they spawn and attack players. In recent updates they now also attack villagers in Zombie sieges.

Profile - Haatfilms

Haatfilms are a group of three friends who choose to make Minecraft video`s. They are comprised of Chris "Trottimus" Trott, Alex "Alsmiffy" Smith and Ross "Djh3max" Hornby. I am currently a member of their forums over at Hatventures under the username; Scarilian

They are planning to release a new series soon called 'Hatventures Origins' with the first episode Here.

Profile - Iron Golems

With the introduction of Zombie attacks, NPC villages needed a protector and here it is. The Iron Golem has a massive 100 health points (Fifty Hearts) and is able to flip Zombies into the air causing them fall damage. They are made similar to the Snow Golem and are made outside the crafting table using 4 Iron blocks and 1 Pumpkin.

Profile - Zombie attacks

The new update features an even more frightening event that happens during the night time of Minecraft, Zombie attacks! Also known as Zombie sieges these are events where any local zombies will attack NPC Villages and break down Wooden Doors to get to the Testificate villagers inside.

Profile - Redstone Lamps

Redstone Lamps are blocks created using a crafting recipe containing 1 Glowstone and 4 Redstone Dust. They can be activated by a lever or through other methods involving Pressure Plates and Redstone Dust.

Minecraft 1.2 trailer

Given the release of 1.2, HaatFilms have released a trailer detailing several of the new features including; Iron Golems, Zombie attacks and a new block Redstone lamps. Check out the trailer below :)



And check out the behind the scene`s video, Here.

Introductions

If you are reading this, then thank you, your support is greatly needed as this blog and the accompanying YouTube channel survive on your support and the fan base that this adventure and building series will create as time passes.

It is my hope for to provide entertainment and ideas for those of the Minecraft community. I humbly request that if you are interested that you should follow this blog and subscribe to the YouTube channel.

There is no set date for video releases at the moment however i hope to be starting them sometime later this year, in the coming months.

Yours sincerely,
Scarilian